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SketchUp 2015 was released in November 2014. This has lots of exciting new features.

The biggest of these is support for 64 bit processors.

If you have been running into problems because your models are just too large to process with the old 32-bit versions of SketchUp, the 64 bit version may work better for you.

To use Render Plus products with SketchUp 2015 you will need to download the latest version.

(Changes made in SketchUp for this version required that we make several basic changes to our applications to be compatible with it.)

• Download new Version

If your license is current, (purchased withing the past 12 months), it will work with SketchUp 2015.

If your license is more than 12 months old you will need to renew your license.

• See: Licenses below.

SketchUp 2015: Overview

64 bit support

Most computers purchased in the past 3 years or so have 64 bit processors. Programs, such as SketchUp, compiled for 64bits can run faster, and process larger databases before they slow down because they are approaching memory limits.

SketchUp 2015 for Windows has been built allow 64-bit memory usage which allows SketchUp to use more than 4 Gb of RAM.

New Tools

• Rotated Rectangle Tool - SketchUp 2015 features an official Rotated Rectangle tool, so you can now draw precise rectangles unbound by default axes.

• 3-point Arc tool - which defines bulges by choosing three points -- there are now four different ways to draw arc’ed edges.

For more information on SketchUp 2015 see the SketchUp Announcement

New Versions of Render Plus Apps

SketchUp 2015 includes new libraries for Ruby, which required that we update all of our Apps to work with it.

You will need to download the latest version of our Apps to use them with SketchUp 2015, and if your license is over 12 months old, you will need to renew your license to use it with SketchUp 2015.

There Apps are currently working with SketchUp 2015:

IRender Nxt ArielVision RPS 3D PDF RpTools

SpaceDesign ProjectSketch Image Filters RpTreeMaker

Other Apps will be released as soon as they are tested - probably later this week.

Download new Version

IRender nXt and ArielVision have new versions and new downloads for use with SketchUp 2015.

• Download Here

Licenses

If your license is current, (purchased withing the past 12 months - purchased during or after November 2013), it will work with SketchUp 2015.

(The second two letters of your license must be MK or later to work with SketchUp 2015. e.g. IRMKxxxxx, IRML, ... IRNA, etc.)

If your license is more than 12 months old you will need to renew your license.

You can renew it here: Renewals

See: SketchUp 2015

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